Food

I am always quite reluctant when it comes to serving desserts that contain raw eggs to friends. I have never had a problem with raw eggs – knocking on wood – but I simply want to be on the safe side.
So when friends came over the other night, I felt like preparing chocolate mousse – but without raw eggs. I ended up preparing …

I did not like it spicy when I was younger. No spice at all. My mouth would start burning even from the smallest hint of spice. Simply because I was not used to it.
Although I loved Chinese food, I only loved it the way it is served in many Chinese restaurants in Europe, not spicy at all. The same …

Good bye 2012, Welcome 2013. For me, the last year has gone by in a whirl wind. I was able to make a lot of new experiences, meet inspiring people, make fantastic travels, work on my photography and play around in the kitchen. As exciting the last year has been …

One more day. Or is it two? Or even longer? When do you celebrate Christmas? And who brings the presents? Is it Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Father Frost, the Christkind or someone else? In my house the …

If I had to choose the only type of chocolate that I could eat until the end of the my life, I would not have a hard time choosing – it would be white chocolate by far. So no surprise that I prefer white chocolate mousse over its dark counterpart and could imagine having it as my Christmas dessert :-)

The love story with these brownie stars continues. Would they not make a delicious edible table decoration for a Christmas dinner? Just stack different sized brownie stars from the biggest to the smallest and dust with icing sugar. Voila … you have your own little Christmas tree (even with snow :-) ) as a …

After my bad start with meringues I now really fell in love with these fellows and I am happy that they now always turn out well. This time I made them as Lebkuchen-vanilla-meringue-kisses, filled with chocolate ganache…

I made these rosemary-olive-cracker the other day and totally fell in love with them. I love rosemary, olives and parmesan – so my expectations were high and for my part I was not disappointed – and measured by the speed the bowl of crackers was emptied …

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Hello & welcome to Strudel & Cream! I am Alexandra and this is my creative playground where you will find visual food stories from the heart of Europe! (Food) photography, the process of preparing food and exploring new (and old) places are my daily yoga - and that is what this place is about.
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